Studio Visits
Studio visitors are very welcome. If, as a school, college or community group, or as a curator, collector, journalist or gallerist, you would like to visit us, please email, or call the studio on 07715549790. We are Studio 3 in the restored ACME warehouse overlooking the Regent's Canal, at 44, Copperfield Rd., and next door to the newly restored Ragged School Museum. The nearest tube station is Mile End, on the Circle and District lines, or Whitechapel on the Elizabeth Line. Parking is free at weekends and after 5.30 pm. For larger groups there is a coach rank immediately outside our door, along with disabled parking bays, and paid parking the length of Copperfield Rd. Mile End Park, with extensive sports and recreational facilities, including a gym, swimming pool, tennis courts and five-a-side pitches, is immediately opposite.
Danny is a qualified art teacher with extensive experience in secondary, further, primary and higher education and we can, if required, jointly establish an appropriate study plan for the day in question, in the studio, or outdoors, or both, as appropriate, to ensure students get best value. There are a number of resources immediately close by. These include the picturesque Regent's Canal, which our building overlooks, with numerous Victorian locks, and colourful canal barges either moored up or passing by. Limehouse Basin is a short walk away, along the towpath, with more locks, and also reed beds, and is home to Limehouse Marina, where traditional wooden Thames Barges can often be seen. These sail-powered coastal flat-bottomed vessels are designed to settle on the Thames mudflats at low tide and go back at least as far as the C17th - and probably to Roman Times - when they transported Portland stone from the Isle of Wight to Central London for the building of St. Paul's Cathedral, and most of a newly fireproofed Central London after the Great Fire of 1666. Just beyond the marina lies Limehouse Reach, with its panoramic views across the Thames Estuary - described by the C19th MP John Burns as 'liquid history' - towards Tower Bridge and The Shard to the right and Greenwich Park - the home of the Greenwich Meridian and a former royal Hunting Lodge - to the left. At low tide we can walk on the Thames foreshore at Wapping, see the gibbet where Captain Kidd was hung, and experience this liquid history for ourselves. There's no telling what we might find...
In addition we are hosts to herons, guillemots, cormorants, Egyptian geese, Canada geese, kingfishers, foxes (after dark), coots, moorhens, swans and dabchicks, all providing essential visual material for the aspiring artist, either to photograph and work up later, or to sketch/watercolour 'en plein air'. The studio is available for students who want to paint and draw, or to view and discuss our work, or yours. If you would like to visit please feel free to discuss your customised programme for the day with us. Weather permitting we would visualise a day spent partly on the towpath and partly in the studio, with say, two alternating groups of fifteen students each. Customised fees for your school or college group are available on request, with advice as to how best to take advantage of the visual resources we have to offer. Whether for serious study, or for an interesting interval in the school or college week, a visit to this part of the the 'East End' of London will make a memorable educational experience for students of all ages.
Available options include:
Studio drawing and painting sessions.
The Regent's Canal towpath.
Colourful canal barges.
Extensive bird life.
The East End Air Raid Protection Corps Memorial, nearby,
being a useful introduction to the effect of WW2 on this part of London.
and, by special arrangement:
A guided tour around a Thames Barge.
A visit to a canal boat.
A canoeing session on the canal.
A visit to the foreshore at Wapping.
For interested parties, Danny can also give a talk on the early feminist/modernist writers Mary Butts and John Rodker, who are currently being rediscovered and who now feature in the English literature graduate and post-graduate syllabuses of a number of Universities in the US, the UK, the EU and Canada, while Mary's novels and diaries are now being (re)published by MacPherson, Faber, the University of Victoria (Canada) and Yale, where Mary's papers are held. She is in Wikipedia along with her husband, John Rodker, founder member of the Whitechapel Boys, who, as translator and publisher, is largely responsible for introducing Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Freud, among many others, in affordable editions, to the British Reading public, and who was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for his services to French literature, both of whom were grandparents to Danny. John's papers are held at the University of Texas.
Danny is a qualified art teacher with extensive experience in secondary, further, primary and higher education and we can, if required, jointly establish an appropriate study plan for the day in question, in the studio, or outdoors, or both, as appropriate, to ensure students get best value. There are a number of resources immediately close by. These include the picturesque Regent's Canal, which our building overlooks, with numerous Victorian locks, and colourful canal barges either moored up or passing by. Limehouse Basin is a short walk away, along the towpath, with more locks, and also reed beds, and is home to Limehouse Marina, where traditional wooden Thames Barges can often be seen. These sail-powered coastal flat-bottomed vessels are designed to settle on the Thames mudflats at low tide and go back at least as far as the C17th - and probably to Roman Times - when they transported Portland stone from the Isle of Wight to Central London for the building of St. Paul's Cathedral, and most of a newly fireproofed Central London after the Great Fire of 1666. Just beyond the marina lies Limehouse Reach, with its panoramic views across the Thames Estuary - described by the C19th MP John Burns as 'liquid history' - towards Tower Bridge and The Shard to the right and Greenwich Park - the home of the Greenwich Meridian and a former royal Hunting Lodge - to the left. At low tide we can walk on the Thames foreshore at Wapping, see the gibbet where Captain Kidd was hung, and experience this liquid history for ourselves. There's no telling what we might find...
In addition we are hosts to herons, guillemots, cormorants, Egyptian geese, Canada geese, kingfishers, foxes (after dark), coots, moorhens, swans and dabchicks, all providing essential visual material for the aspiring artist, either to photograph and work up later, or to sketch/watercolour 'en plein air'. The studio is available for students who want to paint and draw, or to view and discuss our work, or yours. If you would like to visit please feel free to discuss your customised programme for the day with us. Weather permitting we would visualise a day spent partly on the towpath and partly in the studio, with say, two alternating groups of fifteen students each. Customised fees for your school or college group are available on request, with advice as to how best to take advantage of the visual resources we have to offer. Whether for serious study, or for an interesting interval in the school or college week, a visit to this part of the the 'East End' of London will make a memorable educational experience for students of all ages.
Available options include:
Studio drawing and painting sessions.
The Regent's Canal towpath.
Colourful canal barges.
Extensive bird life.
The East End Air Raid Protection Corps Memorial, nearby,
being a useful introduction to the effect of WW2 on this part of London.
and, by special arrangement:
A guided tour around a Thames Barge.
A visit to a canal boat.
A canoeing session on the canal.
A visit to the foreshore at Wapping.
For interested parties, Danny can also give a talk on the early feminist/modernist writers Mary Butts and John Rodker, who are currently being rediscovered and who now feature in the English literature graduate and post-graduate syllabuses of a number of Universities in the US, the UK, the EU and Canada, while Mary's novels and diaries are now being (re)published by MacPherson, Faber, the University of Victoria (Canada) and Yale, where Mary's papers are held. She is in Wikipedia along with her husband, John Rodker, founder member of the Whitechapel Boys, who, as translator and publisher, is largely responsible for introducing Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Freud, among many others, in affordable editions, to the British Reading public, and who was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for his services to French literature, both of whom were grandparents to Danny. John's papers are held at the University of Texas.
